For starters, the map also contains coupons and offers from local businesses. The intent, Foster said, is to get shoppers to “spend the whole day in Kenmore and have a really great time.”

Next, there’s a treasure hunt of specific items to be found at sale sites; clues were to be added to the maps by late Friday.

“People have to use the riddle to discover what the item is,” Foster explained. If they find it at someone’s sale, they need to ask if it’s part of the official hunt. If it is, they take the item back to the Village Green to claim a prize.

And borrowing from the idea of the feedback booth from “Antiques Roadshow,” a “Whad Ya Get?” video booth will be set up on the Village Green for shoppers to record messages about their finds. Everyone who records a message gets a prize.

Once the sale day is over, participating households can drop off unwanted and unsold items at a Buffalo ReUse truck that will be parked at the Village Green. After last year’s garage sale, the nonprofit recycler pulled away with a large trailer full of items to be sold for a fraction of their original prices at its facility on East Ferry Street in Buffalo.

In fact, the Improvement Society has worked with a variety of recyclers for several years.

“So we can be a more green community and make it convenient for people,” Foster said.